Synchronized expression of ftsZ in natural Prochlorococcus populations of the Red Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 644-653

  Holtzendorff, Julia ^a,d   Marie, Dominique ^b   Post, Anton F ^c   Partensky, Frédéric ^b   Rivlin, Assaf ^c   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; S PHASE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 18744397518     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00347.x     Document Type: Article

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